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I feel good about the attendance for this game. I feel like we've come a long way as far as advertising. I am seeing commercials for this game on ESPN and the mountain dew cans. Even the average fan who has heard good things but just isn't sure if they want to go to an FAU game can say for $1.00 I'll check it out and then hopefully we win some fans… I don't know about 12,600 but I'll say 11,300. I hope we're both wrong and it's even more

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One of the fraternities are going to Fantasy Fest. Although that's not 1,000 people, it still something. I'm taking a less-optimistic approach, unfortunately, and saying under 10,000. But, I will be there all the way from San Antonio to make up for the 7,000 fans that should be there !

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See thats too bad. I understand that Fraternities want to do those sorts of things. But it falls upon the students to create traditions. (I'm not sure when FAU pledges) However, I know at some schools fraternities require pledges to go to games. If every fraternity at FAU did that with the football games that would increase the attendance greatly. With time i'm sure it will happen.

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its a tradition for that fraternity to go every year, tradition started before there was even a thought of a football team, they take all the pledges with them as well…..they take around 100 to 150 people every year, however this isn't the problem…….the problem is that every year FAU picks the last weekend of October to be their Homecoming week, I don't agree with it. There is alot to do in October for any Florida resident, especially the last week of October. Fantasy Fest, Halloween Horror Nights, Gauvoween (however you spell it) 90% of the time the Georgia/Florida game lies on this weekend, there is sooo much to do that students rather do than go to a FAU football game….

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jvowl said

its a tradition for that fraternity to go every year, tradition started before there was even a thought of a football team, they take all the pledges with them as well…..they take around 100 to 150 people every year, however this isn't the problem…….the problem is that every year FAU picks the last weekend of October to be their Homecoming week, I don't agree with it. There is alot to do in October for any Florida resident, especially the last week of October. Fantasy Fest, Halloween Horror Nights, Gauvoween (however you spell it) 90% of the time the Georgia/Florida game lies on this weekend, there is sooo much to do that students rather do than go to a FAU football game….

Poor planning is a staple here it seems. For instance, Homecoming included a "Fun Run" in Halloween Costume at 2:30 pm (when it's hot) on a Sunday (when no one is there).

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jvowl said

its a tradition for that fraternity to go every year, tradition started before there was even a thought of a football team, they take all the pledges with them as well…..they take around 100 to 150 people every year, however this isn't the problem…….the problem is that every year FAU picks the last weekend of October to be their Homecoming week, I don't agree with it. There is a lot to do in October for any Florida resident, especially the last week of October. Fantasy Fest, Halloween Horror Nights, Gauvoween (however you spell it) 90% of the time the Georgia/Florida game lies on this weekend, there is sooo much to do that students rather do than go to a FAU football game….

I hate the excuse of "too much other stuff to do". If your a fan, you go to the games. It's 3 hours on a Saturday. Not every college student is going away for Halloween. Make the FAU football games the priority. There are 5 home games….that's 5 Saturday's to commit. It's not asking a lot.